Growth anomalies on Acropora cytherea corals

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1702-1707

  Irikawa, Akiyuki ^a   Casareto, Beatriz E ^a   Suzuki, Yoshimi ^a   Agostini, Sylvain ^a   Hidaka, Michio ^b   Van Woesik, Robert ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acropora cytherea; Aging; Corals; Disease; Growth anomalies

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA; COLONY GROWTH; CORAL GROWTH; CORALS; ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

AGING; COLONY; CORAL; DISEASE; FECUNDITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETON; SURVIVAL;

ACROPORA CYTHEREA; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH RATE; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYP (CNIDARIAN); POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE GROWTH; TURBIDITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; JAPAN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS;

JAPAN; OKINAWA [OKINAWA ISLAND]; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; OKINAWA ISLAND; OKINAWA ISLANDS; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

ACROPORA CYTHEREA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 79960404841     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.05.033     Document Type: Article

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